Our own experience, observing the frustrations of nearby Western Kentucky in
dealing with large poultry farms, would suggest that Indiana should not be in
a hurry to attract factory farms to the Hoosier state. They may be more
trouble than they are worth.
Corporate farms have brought new income to Western Kentucky, but the
unwritten price has been a diminished quality of life for some. They are the residents
who have found their air so fouled by the rank smell of ammonia emissions
that they can hardly stand to go outside.
Western Kentucky rolled out the welcome mat in the mid-1990s, but now some
communities are attempting to roll it up.
John Lucas of the Courier & Press Western Kentucky bureau reported Friday
that Tyson Foods has given up the battle to raise chickens near a Marion, Ky.,
subdivision, Greenwood Heights. The issue there was the odor coming from a
16-house broiler complex just outside the city limits. The company had been found
guilty of violating a city nuisance ordinance.
full story:
http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/editorials/article/0,1626,ECP_768_2653481,00.h
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"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein
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